Our 2008 begun with this......a complete surprise pregnancy, our precious baby Danielle!
And look at this precious baby girl today, parenthood is completely amazing!Happy New Year!
We are really looking forward to the wonderful things that 2009 will bring for our family and Danielle. It is pretty amazing to look back at everything that 2008 brought for our family......the first amazing thing was a precious baby girl.
It was the beginning of 2008 when we found out that I was pregnant. Wow, we thought, are we ready for this? The answer was 'yes'! We got thru mommy having surgery at 12 weeks to hopefully prevent pre-term labor. Then at 15 weeks it was bed rest! Thank you to my employer who really worked with us on this in order for me to keep working. Bed rest was interesting and definitely a necessity. There was no other option and Brad and I were as prepared as we could be. Thank goodness that Dr. Olson had told us after Dylan that the next pregnancy would bring bed rest, that was in the back of our minds. Daddy took over duties, chasing around an 18 month old, doing all of the taking baby to daycare duties and cooking as well as taking care of mommy. This worked and things were going great, baby girl was growing strong. Then at 24 weeks gestation, our little Danielle arrived into the world. I had just been at the doctor 24 hours before I went into labor.....talk about frustrating. But once again, unfortunately the pre-term situation arised, the NICU was ready for us and quite frankly very surprised to see us in a similar situation again. Dr. Barden came down minutes before I had Danielle and grabbed our hands and said 'don't you know what gets you here'. We smiled, and asked him to do everything for our little girl, he said' oh yes, for sure, 1 week further along, whole different ball game.' And from then on the rest is the story of little Danielle born 6.27.2008 ; 1 pound 11 ounces and 100 % miracle, & 2 weeks after the flood as the hospital was still on generator power. WOW, I had been at home on bed rest watching all of the TV coverage on the flood thinking that this is NOT a good time to have a baby.....then look what happened!
2008 was not easy for our family. It brought us many unplanned surprises, but that is what makes us stronger. We thought we wanted to try and 'plan' for another baby, but what we realized is that there is no such thing as 'planning' we need to be happy for what we have and this was chosen for us for a reason, and we are SO happy with how it turned out. A complete total surprise pregnancy and we wouldn't have it any other way. Danielle has touched our hearts and Dylan's also and brightened up our life even more than we thought possible. God has surely blessed our family with 2 happy, healthy, 100% Miracle children and we thank him every day. Our angel is definitely looking down and holding our hand each and every day. Brad and I are much stronger as a couple than we ever thought was possible and hopefully much better parents also. Danielle has been a blessing in disguise, Dylan LOVES his little sister and we can't wait for them, next year at this time, to be running and playing together.
We ring in the New Year with hopes of a happy, healthy, safe family for the whole year in 2009. We do not want to take any day with our children for granted. We want 2009 to be a year of new beginnings for our family. Bright days, new starts and togetherness. Time surely does just fly by, in June Danielle will already be 1 year old. It is hard to believe that today she is just over 6 months old. She is thriving, growing strong and being such a good little strong girl. We truly love the gifts that god has given to us in 2008 and we are excited to watch that gift, our little girl, grow and learn new things in 2009.
From our family to yours, Happy New Year! May 2009 bring health, prosperity and togetherness for our family and yours.~
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